Personal Development

Alongside the Enrichment Programme and throughout Year 12, you will participate in 16 hours of Personal Development (PD) sessions. The sessions are a balance between preparing you to manage your current lives and laying the foundations for managing future experiences. There is a significant chance that you may leave home after Sixth Form, so your Personal Development sessions will ensure that you continue to learn about issues with real-life relevance particularly at this crucial transition point in your lives.

Our overriding aim is to ensure that you have the knowledge and understanding, skills, strategies and attributes that you will need for independent living and the next stage of your education or career. Each session is begins with a lecture, often from an external speaker, before moving to a class-based seminar to explore your own views on the themes in more detail. Attendance is mandatory and monitored. The key areas that are covered at CamSF are:

• Personal organisation and study skills
• E-safety
• Healthy relationships and sex
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Personal finance
• Preparations for your next steps
• Diversity & inclusion